A small to medium-sized ground-bug. The dorsal surface is mottled in browns and cream, with some darker markings on the corium; the scutellum is dark with two small yellowish flecks.  The pronotum has a dark front part and broad speckled rear margin; the narrow side margins are pale and keeled, with several long hairs.

Similar to many other ground bugs, especially Peritrechus species

Good quality photos in the field or from a specimen are needed, clearly showing details of pronotum

field edges, waste ground, ruderal plants

Fist recorded in the Brecklands in 1997, but now spreading beyond this region (ref: British Bugs website, link below)

Rarely recorded - the 2026 record from the former Minorca Colliery is believed to be the first

https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Lygaeidae/Sphragisticus_nebulosus.html